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Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable

As someone targeted for perpetual failure by the designers of most keyboards, I'm happy to read The Register's report that "A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses."

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  1. Maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Illt maek wruting furst psost easzier

  2. Re:Other innevitable innovations... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you could put little springs under the bumps, so that you could feel them move when you pressed them hard enough!

  3. Re:The Best Thing To Do by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now one can patent shapes? I need to get the paperwork rolling on a new idea I have for a tetrahedron mouse!

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  4. Re:The Best Thing To Do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > As someone who sues it

    Why so litigious??

  5. Re:The Best Thing To Do by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone who sues it

    How exactly do you sue a keyboard key?

  6. With all that space between keys... by jomegat · · Score: 5, Funny

    With all that space between the keys, there's room for even more buttons!

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  7. Re:The Best Thing To Do by dzfoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't me an idiot. He clearly meant "suse".

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  8. Re:Apple is, or should be, FAR ahead of this... by C10H14N2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    most of the way over toward E, and the previous two letters were T-H, so I'm going to go ahead and make it an E.

    That is the single most aggravating "feature" of the iPhone keyboard. To he'll with that ducking shot.

  9. Re:The Best Thing To Do by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Logitech wave keyboard has a little "moat" around Capslock and Numlock keys

    Excellent. So then, the formula I need will be:

    (num_users * keyboard_price) + (num_users * large_reptile_price * crocodiles_per_moat)

    ?

  10. Re:The Best Thing To Do by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Funny

    so can most keyboards, when you use the (not supplied) screwdriver tool. :)

  11. Re:The Best Thing To Do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do you shout without a caps lock key?

  12. Re:Stupid by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only on Slashdot is it helpful to explain how something works by pointing out it is similar to devices in the Pegasus galaxy.

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  13. Re:The Best Thing To Do by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    By pushing on the keys very, very hard.

  14. Re:The Best Thing To Do by Thinboy00 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you shout without a caps lock key?

    Like this.

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